CANVAS Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing – 2023

This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, Canvas is the best I’ve used so far (1000x better than buggy/feature-impoverished D2L). It’s generally nice to work with, plays well with most other online resources (especially Google Drive which I use a ton for teaching), it’s fairly easy to explain to students, and it makes it easy to transfer materials between courses each semester.

PROS

One thing I love is that unlike Brightspace/D2L, Canvas has continued to develop and gain new features as long as I’ve used it. I also like how easy it is to transfer course materials from one course to another so that classes I teach each semester, or every other semester, can be easily copied over.

CONS

Some of the more advanced/useful features aren’t always easy to use, and there isn’t great documentation from Canvas. In fact, most of the documentation I’ve found has been from other university’s websites.

Reasons for switching to CANVAS

It was a decision made at a much higher level than me, but everyone I’ve talked to at my university was stoked when we switched to Canvas, and I think it’s been a much better ROI.